Student Services Blog

2017-18 Scholarships for Current SAFS Majors
Application deadline: April 9, 2017
The School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for continuing undergraduate students.
We are accepting applications for the following scholarships in 2017-18 – students may apply to all scholarships at the same time via the application form:

Galloway Applied Fishery Sciences Scholarship
The David and Debra Galloway Applied Fishery Sciences Scholarship is awarded to UW SAFS undergraduate students with a demonstrated financial need and academic merit – financial need will be determined by the UW Office of Student Financial Aid and requires submission of the 2017 FAFSA.

The Center for Quantitative Science announces three Predoctoral Instructor positions available for Summer Quarter 2017. Positions will be filled subject to available funds from the Summer Quarter Office

Q SCI 291 (Analysis for Biologists I): Predoctoral Instructor
The instructor will have full responsibility for the course. Q SCI 291 will meet Monday through Friday daily from 8:30 a.m.

As the end of the quarter is coming, you must be busy working on your term papers and projects. Why don’t you share your wonderful work right on our campus? GPSS hosts a conference for UW graduate and professional students on May 6. This conference is to think about what we do and study as graduate and professional students in the changing geopolitical climate.

The Husky Seed Fund http://www.washington.edu/strategicplanning/husky-seed-fund/, created by students for students, is accepting proposals for innovative projects that will enhance the student experience for all. Your idea could become reality with a seed funding award of up to $5000, with average awards in the $1,000 to $3,000 range.

Community, Environment, and Planning (CEP) is now accepting applications for Fall 2017. CEP is an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree offered through the College of Built Environments at UW-Seattle. This unique undergraduate major is the only student-governed major on campus. If you are interested in people and their relationship to the built and/or natural environments (e.g. community development, sustainability, transportation, food justice, etc.), this is the major for you!

SAFS professor Kristin Laidre is featured in UW Today:
‘Polar bears depend on sea ice for essential tasks like hunting and breeding. As Arctic sea ice disappears due to climate change, bears across the species’ 19 subpopulations are feeling the strain.
But even as scientists try to quantify just how much melting sea ice is affecting polar bears, another group that depends on the iconic mammal for subsistence also is at risk of losing an important nutritional and economic resource.

Please help distribute the blurb below for Unit UW program, an official cultural exchange program housed at the Division of Student Life. We are recruiting 30 domestic and 30 international/exchange students for spring. Thank you so much.
Unite UW, Portal to the World
Find your community, broaden your horizon! Unite UW is now accepting applications for spring quarter. Student Life’s Unite UW is an on campus cultural and personal exchange program that connects domestic students with exchange/international students.

SAFS professor Julian Olden is featured in UW Today:
‘As humans build roads, construct buildings and develop land for agriculture, freshwater ecosystems respond ― but not always in the ways one might expect.
A new study by the University of Washington and Simon Fraser University finds that some fish lose out while others benefit as urban and agricultural development encroaches on streams and rivers across the United States.